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...blind to diversity. Such a merely formal equality fails to remedy the deep-seated unfairness of an institutional structure which gives some people a greater opportunity than others to advance their most fundamental interests. We must recognize that the rules and organizations we create have a profound and pervasive influence on people’s aims, aspirations, and self-respect. Who would argue that there is equality in a society which disproportionately discourages people of a particular race or gender from pursuing their aims and realizing their potential? Equality means respecting diversity by allowing different people to develop and exercise...
...leaving is a direct response to the process to which the Bureau has been subjected over the past several years, a process characterized by a profound and consistent lack of sensitivity and wisdom surrounding the choice to move the Bureau from the educational auspices of [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] into the clinical structure of UHS,” she wrote. “For the past two years, I have witnessed the concerns of my colleagues, all of whom feel passionately about their work with Harvard students, go deliberately and consistently unheeded. This has been profoundly disheartening...
...asked on which side his allegiances fell during those turbulent years, Carlson pauses for a while. At last, he mentions the profound effect that the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy ’48 and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had on him in 1968, then goes on to talk about his father and uncle, both veterans. He came to oppose the war in Vietnam vehemently, but says he still retained a great respect for the military...
...Identity Politics in Taiwan Independence for Taiwan is a vexing issue for a variety of reasons [March 15]. An often overlooked but profound problem concerns the ethnic groups living together on the island. The Democratic Progressive Party and the Kuomintang vie for votes-from the Hakka, Taiwanese, mainlanders, aborigines and other groups-with promises of recognition and, in some cases, special treatment. But neither party has yet defined a common identity that all here can share. In Taiwan, identity comes before independence. Paul Oliver Chunglin, Taiwan...
...Broadwater’s Guildenstern is earnest and restless, always yammering questions and never getting answers. Hodgson’s Rosencrantz is a layabout twit, his perpetually gaping mouth suggesting a severely inbred bloodline. It is Stoppard’s genius to make these idiots the carriers of a profound existential dread; in Stoppard’s hands, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern become philosopher-fools, capable of giving us both joy and horror in a single sitting...